Apologies for the spotty service of the past day.
My hosting provider renumbered the IP addresses of a bunch of machines hosted by them, including mine. They provided simple instructions to help admins effect the change, but I managed to follow them incorrectly, resulting in DNS problems.
I also have an unidentified problem in my Apache installation that it’s causing it to die abruptly. I have not found the cause of the problem yet so if the site is down, you know who to blame.